John W. Forney returns as Clerk of the House, this time as a Republican

John W. Forney was a long-time Pennsylvania ally of James Buchanan and had served from 1851 to 1856 as Clerk of the House of Representatives.  He had left to campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race he lost.  By 1860, he had switched party allegiance and after the long battle to elect a Republican speaker had been won, Forney once again became Clerk of the House, this time as a Republican.  He remained Clerk until June,1868. (By John Osborne)
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Mississippi Legislature kills bill to abolish legal prohibition of import of slaves from Africa

The Mississippi legislature, on a vote of three to one, voted to kill the bill that sought to repeal the state law banning the importation of slaves from Africa.  This action essentially ended in Mississippi the agitation of the previous few years in the Deep South to reopen the African Slave Trade.  ( By John Osborne)
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Republican Salmon P. Chase elected as Senator from Ohio

Salmon Portland Chase had served two terms as the Republican Governor of Ohio and was elected in the state legislature this day as the new Senator from the state to replace the Democrat George E. Pugh.  He won seventy-five votes and Pugh fifty-four.  Chase took his seat in March, 1861 but resigned almost immediately to become Secretary of the Treasury in the new Lincoln Administration.  (By John Osborne)
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Unindentified white men murder scores of Wiyot Indians in northern California

At four o'clock in the morning a party of around six white men entered the Wiyot Indian camp on Gunther Island in Humboldt County, California. Using hatchets and knives, they killed perhaps as many as seventy sleeping men, women, and children.  The Wiyots were essentially wiped out as a tribe and the survivors forced onto reservations.  None of the attackers were ever identified or brought to justice.  (By John Osborne)
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Hazlett and Stevens, the last of John Brown's captured co-conspirators, go on trial in Virginia

In Charlestown, Virginia the trials began of Aaron Stevens and Albert Hazlett, two of John Brown's men who helped him attack Harpers Ferry the previous October.  The Grand Jury brought indictments and jury selection began the following day.  The last of the conspirators tried, both men were later found guilty of murder, treason, and conspiring with slaves to revolt and hanged together in Charlestown on March 16, 1860. (By John Osborne) 
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After more than three months, the U.S. Senate releases Thaddeus Hyatt from the Washington Jail

Thaddeus Hyatt, President of the National Kansas Aid Committee, and known associate of John Brown had been jailed on March 12, 1860 by the U.S. Senate for refusing to testify before the committee investigating the Harpers Ferry Raid.  When Senator Mason's committee reported its findings, more than three months later, Hyatt was released.  He never appeared before the committee.  (By John Osborne) 
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The U.S. Senate imprisons Thaddeus Hyatt for failure to appear before Harpers Ferry Committee

Thaddeus Hyatt, President of the National Kansas Aid Committee and known associate of John Brown, had been called to testify before the Senate Committee investigating the Harpers Ferry Raid.  He had continually called into question the Senate's rights to force his testimony.  The U.S. Senate disagreed and on a vote of  44-10 ordered him incarcerated.  He was sent to the Washington Jail and not freed until June 15, 1860. (By John Osborne) 
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The U.S. Senate orders arrest of Thaddeus Hyatt for failure to appear before Harpers Ferry Committee

Thaddeus Hyatt, President of the National Kansas Aid Committee, and known associate of John Brown had been called to testify before the Senate Committee investigating the Harpers Ferry Raid.  He had continually called into question the Senate's right to force testimony and punish witnesses who failed to appear.  The U.S. Senate on this day ordered his arrest.  He was sent to the Washington Jail on March 12, 1860. (By John Osborne) 
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Thaddeus Hyatt arrives in Washington but defies the Senate Harpers Ferry Committee

Thaddeus Hyatt, President of the National Kansas Aid Committee, and known associate of John Brown had been called to testify before the Senate Committee investigating the Harpers Ferry Raid.  He arrived in Washington D.C. on this day too ill to testify.  In any case, he told the chair of the committee, Senator Mason, that he would appear but not answer any questions as the Senate could not act as a judicial body.  (By John Osborne) 
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Stephen Russell Mallory (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

Reference
“Mallory, Stephen Russell,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000084.
MALLORY, Stephen Russell, (father of Stephen Russell Mallory [1848-1907]), a Senator from Florida; born in Trinidad, West Indies, about 1813; immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Key West, Fla., in 1820; attended schools in Mobile Bay, and Nazareth, Pa.; appointed by President Andrew Jackson customs inspector at Key West in 1833; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced in Key West; county judge of Monroe County 1837-1845; appointed collector of the port of Key West in 1845; served in the Seminole War; elected as a Democrat to the
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
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